Criseyde's Absent Friends
- Author / Editor
- Cartlidge, Neil.
Criseyde's Absent Friends
- Published
- Chaucer Review 44 (2010): 227-45.
- Description
- Chaucer's evocation of contrasting senses of "frend" sharpens his depiction of Criseyde's precarious state in Troy. Lacking advisors, and thus dangerously dependent on Pandarus and Troilus, she also belongs to a network of relationships devoted solely to "an ideal of sociability" and therefore possesses a dangerous independence.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Language and Word Studies